September 26, 1986

Page 1

VOJ010-OC 60 NE3R HISTORICAL SOC 1500 R ST LINCOLN NE

I

6.3508

===—__-jtf£LSf—JiSL SEItVING NEBRASKA AND IOWA SINCE 1920 voi^^Lxiy4< o.

54 Omaha, Nebr.

22 Elul, 5746 Friday, Saptembcr 26, 1986

State of Israel Bonds to honor Truman Clare

Mrs. Seldin to host Chaj/Grand Gifts luncheon

Dr. Paul Shyken, general chairman for the State of Israel Bonds, announced that Truman Clare wiH receive the prestigious Gates of Jerusalem Medal on Nov. 16. Dr. Shyken said, "Truman Clare has been a friend and supporter of the Jewish community for many years, and it is only fitting we honor him in this manner. As a staunich suppiMer of Israel, Truman's dedication has not wavered over the years." Bom near Cortland, Neb., Mr. Clare received his business administration degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and his master's degree from Northwestern University. In 1951 Truman Clare |,g graduated from Crelghton University's School of Law where he received his doctor of law degree. Mr. Clare is very active in the Jewish conununity. He; is on the building subcoiumittee and Health Club committee of the Jewish Community Center, and he is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Jewish Federation of Omaha. Mj-. Clare is also a former District Deputy of Knights of Columbus in Nebraska, Creighton University Fund-Raising Drives and Marianna Inc., a Catholic nonprofit corporation for members of the clergy. Cujnrently, Mr. Clare is tax advisor and legal counsel to the Jewish Federation Foundation. In 1984 Mr. Clare, his wife, Rosemary, and son, John, visited Israel on the 36th Anniversaiy International Israel Bond Conference. In January of this year, he received the Humanitarian of the Year award given by the Jewish Federation, and in 1982th?^City of Peace award given by the State of Israel Bonds at its first Professioned dinner. Dr. Shyken added, "Only by our attendance at the dinner, can we honor and show our support to Truman Clare for all the years he has worked for the Jewish community." The Nov. 16 dinner will be at Beth Israel Synagogue and invitations wiU be mailed shortly to the entire community.

"It's going to be a really special afternoon for women," said Ellen Gordman, Chai/Grand Gifts Chairman, in announcing Beverly Seldin as the hostess and chairman for the Chai/Grand Gifts luncheon. Bev's generosity coupled with her enthusiasm and unique talents guarantee that it will be a wonderful event," aidded Mrs. Gordman. For many years Beverly Seldin has been an active participant in both Federation and Campaign activities. She is currently serving a term on the Federation's Board of Directors and for the past two years was the co-chairman for the Federation's Annual Meeting. She has been involved in the Annual Campaign and last year served as a Captain in the Chai/Grand Gifts Division. Beverly Seldin "I am pleased to be able to contribute in this way to my commvmity," said Mrs. Seldin. "My sponsoring of this event will allow campaign funds to be used where they are most needed—providing programs and services," she concluded. Mrs. Seldin is a member of Hadassah and the National Council of Jewish Women and served as a vice-president with the latter organization. Interested in th^ arts, Mrs. Seldin is a past board member and vice-president of the Omaha Ballet Guild and currently serves on the Omaha Symphony Guild Board. The Chai/Grand Gifts event will be held in late November. The minimum gift for the Division is $1,500.

ADLtafk

The Nebraska Dinner of State for the Holocaust Memorial Museum will accept last-minute reservations, the committee has announced. The dinner will take place Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in AkSar-Ben Hall with a minimum contribution of $100 per person. Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodel will speak and among those participating in the program will be Governor Robert Kerrey and Chief Justice Norman Krivosha. Those attending the dinner should enter Ak-Sar-Ben through the 63rd and Shirley street entrance, the committee advised. Telephone reservations may be made by calling 391-5603, 449-9333 or 391-2200. Contributions may be mailed to "A Campaign to Remember," 10808 Prairie Hills Drive, Omaha, Ne 68114.

^^^^^I^^^B^

, ^^^^^^H

.

Jeffrey Y. Saiitis, executive director, ADL/CRC, will speak on "Jewish Responses to Anti-Semitism," Sept. 29 at 7-.30 p.m. in the JCC in connection with the College of Jewish Learning sponsored by the Jewish Cultural Arts Council.

Kutlers receive letter from fannily in Istanbul Editor's note: The massacre of 21 Jews during Sabbath morning prayers in Istanbul's Neve Shalom (Oasis of Peace) synagogue is the bloodiest pogrom of its type since Arab terrorists began the wholesale targeting of Jewish houses of worship and their congregants in European capitals and major, cities six years ago. In last week's paper, a story about Dr. Sol and Cherie Kutler mentioned their telephone call to friends in Istanbul, Tnrkey. liiis week, a letter from their friends (the Asaryod family)

Dinner of State to accept calls

arrived in Omaha and the Kutlers made it available to the Jewish Press. Excerpts ai-e as follows: 11 September, 1986, Istanbul Shalom, You really made us very happy by calling us last night. It was so kind, so tactful of you. In fact we felt a little embarrassed, too, because we haven't been writing to you for so long, we felt really bad facing your carefulness. Anyway, I hope we will see each other again on better occaaions. (Continned on Page 5)

Bronfman gets award This bust by Robert Berks of Justice Louis Brandeis, the great jurist and Zionist leader, will be presented to Edgar M. Bronfman, president ofthe World Jewish Congress, at the 85th national convention of the Zionist Organization of America Sept. 25-28 in EUdtimore. Bronfman will receive the ZOA's Brandeis Award for his "extraordinary leadership of the WJC in exposing the Nazi past of former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim.

Special interview: The plight of Soviet refuseniks By Andrew Muchin physiotherapy on the healed lag, now two centimeters NEW YORK, (JTA) - The new national chairman of the shorter than the other. United Jewish Appeal boarded a plane in Moscow Sept. Tanya also is worried that the log-splitting and carry4 and returned to the United States. His hosts were una- ing of rough timber assigned to Yi& when he's well will damage his hands so that he'll never again be able to perble to book a similar ticket. Martin Stein of Milwaukee had spent the week visiting form surgery. 36 Soviet Jews doiied permission to emigrate. Through his In another household. Stem met a young girl whose Yiddish, a companion's Hebrew, and the English spoken father also is imprisoned. Arriving home from the first day by many of the refuseniks. Stein heard stories and wit- of school, where she had sat silently through the traditional Peace Day anti-American, anti-Zionist lessons, she ripped nessed events he thought rich in hope and courage. "You talk to these people, and they laugh and they joke her red bandana from her neck, "threw it on the ground and they talk about someday^going to Israel," Stein said, and stepped on it," Stein said. expressing admiration for their "faith that they're going At her guests' request, she made a drawing of her choice. to make it and the dedication and the community spirit." It was of Israel, with "New Year in Jerusalem" and her In a r(9cent interview with the Jewish Telegraphic families' names written in Hebrew. Agency, Stein recalled some of his encounters, both tragic A man told Stein that he began to practice Jewish ritual and inspuing. Many of the refuseniks, but especially late i° U^e. Hia son, who wears sidelocks and a prayer shawl Vladimir and Maria Slepak, prove Soviet leader Mikhail beneath his clothing, was ritually circumcised 10 years ago Gorbachev erred when he said no Soviet Jews had refuse- at age 8. The procedure took place in the only Jewish apartnik status for more than five years, according to Stein. ment in the complex. Stein related, so the boy was told he • He said Maria toJd him: "We've been m refusal now for must not.flcream. The boy cried, but silently. When his father asked how he stifled his screams, the 17 years ... We're now 60 years old. I don't know if we've boy replied, "When the pain got so it was unbearable, I got 17 more years to wait." looked up to the heavens, and I said 'Sh'mah Yisroel,' and Tanya Edebhteih also is waiting. Her husband Yuli is the pain went away." serving a three-year prison sentence for illegal possession Stein met the father at a glatt kosher Sabbath dinner of drugs, which they claim were planted on him. hosted by another refusenik. "We had soup and we had Yuli, 45, is ill with kidney complications from an opera- meat and we sang songs."... (The host) was a Lubavitcher tion on his urethra followhig an accident at his labor camp. guy. You would have thought that you were m Crown Last year, he brdce afemur in another accident and requires Heights (N.Y.)," said Stein. "There were pictures of the

rebbe around, and there was a Torah in the othtf room, and they davened every day three times a day in that house." The refuseniks advised him that the West could help them by applying economic pressures and embarrassing l^e Soviet and Isradi delegations, considering it "a real estate deal." Their message to American Jews was "not to forget them, and that we're their only hope. We're the peopiB that can make'the difference for them," Stein reported. UJA is participating in a national Jewish effort coordinated by the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. A petition urging President Reagan "to continue to insist that human rights remains a key issue of East-West relations" will be cinnilated m the hopes of gaining one million signatures. , And peagie are being asked to come to Washington to . demonstrate on behalf of human rights issues including Jewish ^gration during the Gorbachev-Reagan.aUmmit here in November. Stein was UJA national chairman for Operation Moses, which raised $63 million from November 1984-March 1985 for Ethiopian Jews airlifted to Israel. He said the plight of (he Soviet Jews merits the same degree of attention. "Although it's different, because people aren't starving, it is, I believe, as essential, because of the numbers," he said. I About 2.S nullion Jews live in the Soviet Union and 400,000 are thought to want to emigrate. Jewish emigration was 896 in 1984, 1,140 last year and is 505 in 1986^^ through August. |B


Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.